Sarah Biddulph

Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 2007 book examines the development of Chinese police powers since the 1950s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9781107405943
• ISBN-10: 1107405947
• Artikelnr.: 35895751

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Conceptual Framework: 1. The problems of legal
reform of police administrative detention powers; 2. The legal field and
the process of legal reform since 1978; Part II. Social Order and
Administrative Detention: 3. Historical antecedents: the 1950s and
administrative detention; 4. Social order, the 'hard strike' and
administrative detention powers; 5. Revival of administrative detention in
the reform era: prostitutes and drug addicts; 6. Re-education through
labour; Part III. Legal Reform and its Impact on Administrative Detention:
7. Building a legal environment for police detention; 8. Supervision of
police conduct: legalisation and contest; 9. Legal reform catches up with
administrative detention; Part IV. Analysis and Conclusion: 10. The field
of law, the force of law and the powers that be.